We have posted a number of reasons that Sacramento County residents should vote NO on the Measure A transportation sales tax. You can see the individual posts on Measure A 2022. The #MeasureANotOK citizen campaign against Measure A is at https://measureanotok.org. Here is a summary of STAR’s reasons for being against Measure A.

• If the measure passes, transit funding will be limited, for 40 years, to less than the half-cent sales tax equivalent that is critical to an equitable and efficient transit system.
• The measure reduces the percentage allocation to disabled and senior transportation from the current 4.5% in the existing Measure A (which will increase to 5.5%), to only 3%. The people most dependent on our transit system are being shortchanged.
• The measure’s Transportation Expenditure Plan (TEP) calls out specific transit infrastructure projects including the Green Line to the Airport, and bus rapid transit along the proposed Capital Southeast Connector freeway. Though it is possible to change the TEP every 10 years, the onus would be on SacRT to propose the change, rather than on the cars-first and sprawl proponents of the measure. The measure sees transit as mitigation for motor vehicle projects, not as a valid travel mode in its own right.
• By building freeways and interchanges, and expanding roadways, the measure subsidizes motor vehicle travel, which completes directly against transit, and in fact slows transit by congesting roadways that buses must use.
• The Capital Southeast Connector freeway will induce sprawl in the southeast county. Low density development cannot be effectively be served by fixed route transit, and can only be served by on-demand transit services, which are several times as expensive to operate as fixed route buses and light rail. The measure would not fund this high cost service.

Assuming that Measure A fails, STAR will be a leader in the effort to create an equitable, climate friendly transportation vision for Sacramento County.

• Measure A 2022